Matt Buechler

Are there governers in the 1995 Protege engine?

G2Protege

i took mine up to 100 and then i let off...not sure why...

Bruce95fmla

in PA , at the last Carlisle show , I hit 120 ,,, Wil remebers that night ,,,.. lol ,,, when he had to move over and let me by
Bruce

G2Protege

did it take a little while to hit 120 or what??? i got to 100 in my automatic and it didnt take too long...but it seemed like it was gonna explode(high high rpm) so i let off lol

Bruce95fmla

no not really ,, what gear was I in ,,, uhhh might have been ,, oh I remeber ,, I was in 4th and maxed out and then hit 5th and the frigin car was pulling like hell straight to 120 ... Wil knows about it ,, I was running super 91octane , from new york all the way to carlisle pa ... out there all the roads are so damn flat it was amazing ,... I think the highway was like I80 or something ,... man we did chill hard last year at carlisle though ,, yall should make it to the next one ,, .. I will be there again . wheather or not I have the protege
Bruce

midnightblue97

They've got them in Canada too, I hit 190KMH (115mph?) and the engine kicked out. It weirded me out until I realized what it was.
If my car didn't have it, I might have been able to hit 210, the engine seemed like it still had some juice left in it.

Green Skanka

well, on my 1.5 stick, i mazed 4th gear out at ~117, went to fith and didn't get to far past 120 before traffic